Archives for
February 2008

The folks over at Royal Pingdom pinged me with a story that lays down an interesting proposition. According to them, as Digg grows, more and more sites it links to will suffer downtime because of the Digg effect (huge traffic spike from Digg's many u...

Microsoft has made an official proposal to acquire Yahoo in a deal worth $44.6 billion in cash and stock, at a price of $31 per share, which represents a 62 percent premium for shareholders. Here's a quote from the official press release: "Microsoft ...

MySpace is throwing a launch party in the San Francisco area on Tuesday, February 5th to kick off their developer platform, and has provided Mashable with 25 exclusive invitations to offer the community. There are only 15 spots remaining, so please h...

According to Kara Swisher, Mark Zuckerberg told a group of Facebook employees yesterday that the company is on track to take in between $300-350 million revenue this year, up handily from an estimated $150 million in 2007. While that’s impressive gro...

The online social networking industry is commandeered by a few massive forces: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, etc. They comprise the heads of the pack. They make the news; they shape discussion about market trends and innovations. But the sector of the mar...

In probably the biggest Web deal since AOL-Time Warner, Microsoft has bid $44.3 billion to acquire Yahoo. Personally I’ve been tuned into CNBC all morning, where most of the talking heads seem to think the deal makes a lot of sense. Mashable readers ...

There’s been no public handshake had between S. Ballmer and J. Yang. The offer made by the former for the latter’s dust-covered golden goose has not yet been accepted. (Officially, anyway.) But it darn well should be. I’ll come out and say it. In the...

If you like watching television on Joost but wish there were subtitles for shows that either need the sound turned off or would like to watch a program that's in a different language, then you're going to like subjoost. This is a downloadable widget ...

Hulu is gaining traction, and the big boys behind the online video network have actually done their part to ensure that its content is available across multiple video platforms. Online distribution at its finest, right? Hulu is making sure the consum...

Leave it to Google, the likely impetus behind the story of the day, to release something to give us a reprieve from the Microsoft-Yahoo merger discussions. Today they released a new API for graphing social connections in the wilds of the web. It's ca...

While it's the biggest Web deal in years, Microsoft-Yahoo was hardly unexpected. We've heard rumors of a deal since late 2006, and after Yahoo's latest earnings report earlier this week, many were calling for action. In fact, according to All Things ...

"Wild Brother"The title page of William Lyman Underwood's "Wild Brother", published in 1921GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE / INTERNET ARCHIVEI should hesitate to tell - with the expectation that it would be accepted as the truth - the true story that I am n...

While most of the day has been devoted to coverage of the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo deal, there is some pretty significant news out of Google as well: the launch of the Social Graph API. As Mark described earlier, “it’s used by social app developers t...

In response to Microsoft's proposed acquisition, Yahoo has published a brief FAQ this evening that doesn’t offer much in the way of details, other than letting us know it could be a while until they come to a decision: Q1. How is Yahoo! responding to...

Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo has set off a firestorm of comments and opinions. Earlier in the day, Adam recapped how our readers are reacting to the news, with the majority of you voting that Yahoo should take the deal, but not so certai...

We know you've been bombarded with news of Microsoft-Yahoo, with the unsolicited bid amounting to $46 billion. But we figured we'd take a lighter approach to the whole situation, and see what the larger community thinks about a possible acquisition, ...

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Gimado is the latest to launch a music search engine, very similar in function to SeeqPod. Crawling the web for mp3s, your search query will return a list of results for songs that can be played and downloaded. I played around on the site for a while...

Twit.io is a social database, comprised entirely of tweets. The result is a classifieds-type system that lets you browse and search Twitter content in a more delineated manner. Think of it as Twitter meets craigslist. If you follow twit.io, then you'...

Writing Room is a recently launched community for writers. Duh. Now, there are a lot of these sites out there, from niche writing techniques to niche interest groups. As you'd expect, The Writing Room has various social networking tools, search and d...

With all the Microsoft-Yahoo mess going on today, it may have escaped your memory that there are some other big things going on at the moment - like a Presidential election and, you know, the SuperBowl. We just caught wind of this tool to make your e...

MyBlogLog, the popular blogger community that allows you to see who has visited your site, has just launched a closed beta for their API. You currently will have to apply to get on a waiting list for access to the API, but it looks like you will be a...

It's been a bad week for undersea telecommunications cables in the Middle East. According to the BBC, a cable snapped today that just added to the headache of the two that broke on Wednesday under the Mediterranean. Flag Telecom, the owners of the l...

Israel is becoming a hotbed for web-based startups, and the connections between Israel and Silicon Valley are getting stronger as these startups receive more funding and become more prominent in the tech community, looking for global growth. To help ...

Yahoo has a new facebook app. It's called Friend Sense, and it's a product of the research arm of Yahoo, called The Human Social Dynamics group. The point of this application is to get to know your friends, and yourself, better. Through a series of y...

It's that time of the year again where the entire United States goes into a football-induced coma-like state. Yes, every true fan will spend those 4 or so hours in front of the TV, but there's also a wealth of online resources that can help you enjoy...

It’s the morning after the storm. The waters seemed to have calmed somewhat. The journalists and analysts have all tired of hacking their keyboards with worn, calloused digits after a mad scramble for revealing information and insight into the minds ...

Over the last 12 hours or so, there’s been a considerable increase in chatter floating around the blogosphere about News Corp’s purported desire to make an offer for Yahoo! after bearing witness to Microsoft’s swift and silent launch to claim the Web...

Wal-Mart has lost the head of its digital media department. Kevin Swint, once the champion of the retail giant’s music and video services, has left one large empire to join another, according to a report by Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org. Swint is star...

Buried beneath the mass of speculation about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! made public Friday, Dan Farber of ZDNet’s Between the Lines blog is claiming today that the expected acquiree-to-be may soon release a long-planned update to its Flickr photo sha...

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